Wilkie Collins - Woman Quotes

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This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

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Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

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No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

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Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?

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The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.

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